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I5y Chas. W. E. Chapin. 



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'"FWAS 

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the 
legends 
say, 

Sir Roderick gave a party gay 
On Christmas night at Lynden Hall; 



And ladies fair and gallants tall, 
And lord and matron old and gray, 

Came one and all 

To Lynden Hall. 

'T^HE Yule log blazed and burned and roared, 
And flames and sparks up chimney soared. 
In festoons gay the holly swung, 
The mistletoe demurely hung 



From arches 

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festal board, 




And shyly clung 

Where bri2;ht lig;hts hung. 



T^HE liolly's berries, pale and white — 
And not as now so red and bright — 
Were woven with the mistletoe 
And hung just where — now you must know 
What surely haps on Christmas night 

If maiden go 

'Neath mistletoe. 



A ND when beneath this magic spray 
Fair Gladys happ'd perchance to stray, 
Up quickly stepped a gallant knight 
And kissed her there, as was his right 




And all the legends truly say 
That ne'er did knight 
Give kiss so lisht. 



'X'HE holly berries overhead 
Grew rosy and turned crimson red; 
For when they saw the lovely hue 
On Gladys' cheek, what could they do 
But droop and blush? So rosy red 

In blushing too, 

The holly grew. 



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